(archaic, transitive) To inspire fright in; to frighten, to terrify.
agraphia
agraphia
noun
(pathology) A loss of the ability to write (usually resulting from a brain injury).
The inability to write.
agraphic
agraphic
adj
(medicine) Affected with or pertaining to agraphia.
airgraph
airgraph
noun
(UK, historical) A form of airmail used to send messages to servicemen during the Second World War.
airlight
airthing
airtight
airtight
adj
(figuratively) Having no weak points or flaws.
(figuratively, of a person) Highly reserved in some matter, particularly tight-lipped or tight-fisted.
Impermeable to air or other gases.
alberghi
alberghi
noun
plural of albergo
albright
algaroth
algaroth
noun
Alternative form of algarot
algraphy
algraphy
noun
(photography) An early photographic technique, similar to zincography or lithography, using paper impregnated with an aluminium salt.
alrighty
alrighty
intj
(informal) Used to affirm, indicate agreement, or consent.
anagraph
anagraph
noun
(obsolete) A physician's prescription or recipe.
(obsolete) An inventory; a record.
A kind of anagram.
anhungry
anhungry
adj
(obsolete, rare) Hungry.
apograph
apograph
noun
(textual criticism) A copy or transcript of a manuscript (called the antigraph).
archegay
archings
archings
noun
plural of arching
archking
archking
noun
(rare) A chief king.
arightly
arightly
adv
Aright; correctly.
asgardhr
athrough
bagheera
bagheera
Proper noun
A fictional panther character in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book.
Noun
The deputy leader of a pack of Cub Scouts.
barghest
barghest
noun
(mythology, Britain) A legendary monstrous black dog, said to possess large teeth and claws, and (sometimes) to be capable of changing form.
(mythology, Britain) Any ghost, wraith, hobgoblin, elf, or spirit.
bearhugs
bearhugs
noun
plural of bearhug
bedright
bedright
noun
Alternative form of bedrite
begorrah
begorrah
intj
(Ireland) Alternative spelling of begorra
begrutch
begrutch
verb
Obsolete form of begrudge.
berghaan
berghaan
noun
(South Africa) Verreaux's eagle (Aquila verreauxii)
berghoff
bergholz
berthage
berthage
noun
A place for mooring vessels in a dock or harbor.
berthing
berthing
noun
(nautical) An instance of a ship being brought to be berthed, to rest at some docking facility.
(obsolete, nautical) The planking outside of a vessel, above the sheer strake.
A berth, especially figuratively, a place to sleep.
verb
present participle of berth
betrough
bighorns
bighorns
noun
plural of bighorn
biograph
biograph
noun
(rare) A biographical essay.
An early device to show moving pictures on a screen.
verb
(rare, transitive) To write a biography of.
birching
birching
noun
A beating with a birch.
verb
present participle of birch
birthing
birthing
noun
(nautical) Alternative spelling of berthing
(sometimes attributive) The act of giving birth.
verb
present participle of birth
blighter
blighter
noun
(Britain, often disrespectful) A person, usually male, especially one who behaves in an objectionable or pitiable manner.
A man or child, especially an annoying one.
One who blights.
borghese
borghild
borgholm
boroughs
boroughs
noun
plural of borough
braggish
braggish
adj
bragging; boastful.
breughel
brighten
brighten
verb
(intransitive) To become brighter or more cheerful in mood
(intransitive) To grow bright, or more bright in color; to clear up
(transitive) To make bright or brighter in color.
(transitive) To make illustrious, or more distinguished; to add luster or splendor to
(transitive, figuratively) To make more cheerful and pleasant; to enliven
brighter
brighter
adj
comparative form of bright: more bright
brightly
brightly
adv
In a bright manner.
brighton
bringeth
bringeth
verb
(archaic) third-person singular simple present form of bring
broguish
broguish
adj
Pertaining to or marked by a brogue, a thick accent.
bronaugh
brougham
brougham
noun
A four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage, designed in 1839. It had an open seat for the driver in front of the closed cabin for two or four passengers.
An automobile, a sedan without a roof over the driver's seat.
broughta
brueghel
brushing
brushing
adj
(dated) brisk; light
noun
(uncountable, Internet) A fraudulent technique in which an online seller sends out fake orders (such as empty boxes) and adds positive reviews about those orders, ostensibly from the recipient.
An instance of brushing.
verb
present participle of brush
burghers
burghers
noun
plural of burgher
burghley
burleigh
burleigh
Proper noun
Any of various towns in the English-speaking world.
burnight
carthage
carthage
Proper noun
An ancient city in North Africa, in modern Tunisia
Any of several cities in Illinois, Mississippi, Missouri, South Dakota, Texas, USA:
a city in Illinois
a city in Mississippi
a city in Missouri
a city in Texas
Any of several towns in Arkansas, Indiana, Maine, North Carolina, Tennessee, USA:
a town in North Carolina
a town in Tennessee
cashgirl
chagrins
chagrins
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chagrin
chairing
chairing
verb
present participle of chair
changers
changers
noun
plural of changer
charango
charango
noun
A small guitar-like stringed instrument with five courses of eighteen to fifteen strings, originating in traditional Andean folk music.
chargers
chargers
noun
plural of charger
charging
charging
noun
(countable) An act or process of charging (as of a battery).
(uncountable, basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
verb
present participle of charge
charking
charking
verb
present participle of chark
charming
charming
adj
Delightful in a playful way which avoids responsibility or seriousness, as if attracting through a magical charm.
Pleasant, charismatic.
noun
The casting of a magical charm.
verb
present participle of charm
charring
charring
noun
The incomplete combustion of organic material.
verb
present participle of char
charting
charting
noun
The act by which something is charted.
verb
present participle of chart
cheering
cheering
noun
A cheer.
verb
present participle and gerund of cheer
chemurgy
chemurgy
noun
(chemistry) a branch of applied chemistry that is concerned with preparing industrial products from agricultural raw materials.
chiggers
chiggers
noun
plural of chigger
chiragra
chiragra
noun
(medicine) Gout in the hand.
chirking
chirking
verb
present participle of chirk
chirming
chirming
verb
present participle of chirm
chirping
chirping
noun
(gerund of chirp) The act, or an instance of, chirping.
verb
present participle of chirp
chirring
chirring
noun
The sound of a chirr.
verb
present participle of chirr
present participle of chirre
chirurgy
chirurgy
noun
(archaic) surgery.
choiring
choiring
verb
present participle of choir
choragic
choragic
adj
Of or pertaining to a choragus.
choragus
choragus
noun
(historical, Ancient Greece) A chorus leader, especially one who provided at his own expense and under his own supervision one of the choruses for the musical contests at Athens.
chording
chording
noun
(computing) The ability, using a keyboard or similar device, to enter characters or commands in the form of "chords" by pressing several keys simultaneously.
An arrangement of musical chords.
verb
present participle of chord
choregic
choregic
adj
Of or relating to a choregus.
choregus
choregus
noun
The leader of a chorus in Ancient Greece
The leader of a group (especially of performers)
chroming
chroming
noun
(Australia) The act of inhaling the fumes of substances such as glue or paint, usually by sniffing them from a paper bag or bottle, with the aim of getting intoxicated.
verb
present participle of chrome
chuggers
chuggers
noun
plural of chugger
churchgo
churinga
churning
churning
noun
The act by which something is churned.
The quantity of butter prepared (by churning) at one time.
verb
present participle of churn
churring
churring
verb
present participle of churr
cleghorn
clougher
cohering
cohering
verb
present participle of cohere
coughers
coughers
noun
plural of cougher
craighle
crashing
crashing
noun
The sound or action of something that crashes.
verb
present participle of crash
croighle
crushing
crushing
adj
Devastatingly disheartening.
That crushes; overwhelming.
noun
(in the plural) Crushed material.
A former method of execution by placing heavy weights on the victim.
The act of subjecting sugarcane to crushing.
The action of the verb to crush.
verb
present participle of crush
curraghs
curraghs
noun
plural of curragh
dahlgren
daughter
daughter
noun
(by extension) A female character of a creator.
(informal, uncommon, sometimes derogatory) A familiar address to a female person from an older or otherwise more authoritative person.
(physics) A nuclide left over from radioactive decay.
(syntax, of a parse tree) A descendant.
A daughter language.
A female descendant.
One’s female offspring.
daughtry
diagraph
diagraph
noun
(dated) A drawing instrument that combines a protractor and scale.
digraphs
digraphs
noun
plural of digraph
dishrags
dishrags
noun
plural of dishrag
dogshore
dogshore
noun
(nautical) One of several shores used to prevent a ship from moving while the blocks are knocked away before launching.
doughier
doughier
adj
comparative form of doughy: more doughy
dragshoe
draughts
draughts
noun
(board games, Britain, Australia, uncountable) A board game for two players in which the players each have a set number of pieces (typically 12 or 20, depending on the rule set), known as men, and the object is to capture each of the opponent's pieces by jumping one's own pieces over the opponent's pieces.
A mild vesicatory.
plural of draught
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of draught
(obsolete, often capitalized) The Lord; Lord God; Christ.
drightin
drightin
noun
Alternative form of drighten
drogheda
droghlin
droughts
droughts
noun
plural of drought
droughty
droughty
adj
(archaic) Dry; thirsty.
Lacking rain.
drugshop
drugshop
noun
drugstore; pharmacy
duograph
duograph
noun
(historical) A picture printed from two halftone photographic plates made with the screen set at different angles, and usually printed in two shades of the same colour or in black and one tint.
earthing
earthing
noun
(holism) The process of connecting with the earth's energy, usually through bodily contact (e.g. walking barefoot), supposed to achieve health and vitality.
The act or process of placing (something) in the earth; planting; burying
verb
present participle of earth
echogram
echogram
noun
sonogram
embright
encharge
encharge
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To give to somebody as a charge; to entrust with a duty or task.
engraphy
enhunger
enhunger
verb
(transitive) To make hungry.
enthrong
entrough
epigraph
epigraph
noun
(mathematics, of a function) The set of all points lying on or above the function's graph.
A literary quotation placed at the beginning of a book or other text.
An inscription, especially on a building.
verb
(transitive) To provide (a literary work) with an epigraph.
erthling
etherege
ethrogim
euchring
euchring
verb
present participle of euchre
exograph
farleigh
farsight
farsight
noun
The faculty of looking far ahead; farsightedness; prescience.
farthing
farthing
noun
(figurative) A very small quantity or value; the least possible amount.
(historical) Former British unit of currency worth one-quarter of an old penny; or a coin representing this.
(obsolete) A division of land.
fighters
fighters
noun
plural of fighter
flighter
flighter
noun
(brewing) A horizontal vane revolving over the surface of wort in a cooler, so as to produce a circular current in the liquor..
foghorns
foghorns
noun
plural of foghorn
fraughan
fraughan
noun
(Ireland) The bilberry or whortleberry (Vaccinium myrtillus).
fraughts
fraughts
noun
plural of fraught
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fraught
freights
freights
noun
plural of freight
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of freight
freshing
freshing
verb
present participle of fresh
friborgh
frighted
frighted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of fright
frighten
frighten
verb
(transitive) To cause to feel fear; to scare; to cause to feel alarm or fright.
frighter
frogfish
frogfish
noun
(archaic) Any fish of genus Lophius.
Any of several benthic anglerfish, of the family Antennariidae, having a frog-like mouth with a lure.
Any of the benthic ray-finned fish of the family Batrachoididae (the sole family of order Batrachoidiformes), which are ambush predators and have a toad-like appearance.
froggish
froggish
adj
Aggressive.
Inclined to fight.
Resembling or characteristic of a frog.
froghood
froghood
noun
The state or period of being a frog.
frothing
frothing
noun
The act of something that froths.
verb
present participle of froth
furlough
furlough
noun
(Britain) especially one granted to a missionary.
(US) especially one granted to a member of the armed forces, or to a prisoner.
A period of unpaid time off, used by an employer to reduce costs.
The documents authorizing such leave.
verb
(transitive) To grant a furlough to (someone).
(transitive) To have (an employee) not work in order to reduce costs; to send (someone) on furlough.